European stock exchanges are expected to open sharply on Thursday, as traders review a series of corporate publications while monitoring speculations about the future of Federal Reserve (Fed) Chairman Jerome Powell.

Airbus has agreed to provide additional financial support of $94 million to American aviation equipment manufacturer Spirit AeroSystems in connection with its ongoing acquisition of some of the company's industrial assets. According to a document filed on Wednesday with the American stock exchange regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission, Airbus will pay Spirit a total of 152 million dollars, under the amended memorandum of understanding

The advertising group Publicis raised its forecast for organic net revenue growth for 2025 on Thursday, while this indicator came out above analysts' estimates in the second quarter.

The airport operator Groupe ADP announced that its traffic grew by 1.7% over one year in June 2025 and exceeded the levels observed before the Covid-19 pandemic.

The electrical infrastructure specialist Legrand announced on Thursday the increase of its sales growth objective for 2025, after a marked increase in its business in the first half of the year.

On Thursday after the trading day, Argan will publish its results for the first half of the year, while Vinci will present traffic figures at its airports for the second quarter.

Around 7:40 a.m., the CAC 40 futures contract gained 0.6%, according to data from broker IG.

Before the release of eurozone inflation statistics for June in the morning, European equity market futures rose on Thursday. Investors are also staying alert to indications about the US Fed's interest rate trajectory.

According to data from broker IG, around 7:40 a.m., the DAX 40 futures contract in Frankfurt was 0.7%, while the FTSE 100 futures contract in London was up 0.5%.

The New York Stock Exchange ended higher on Wednesday after a volatile session, marked by new speculations on the future of the president of the American Central Bank and by good results in the banking sector.

The Dow Jones Index rose 0.5%, to 44,254.78 points, while the S&P 500 gained 0.3%, to 6,263.70 points. For its part, the Nasdaq Composite, rich in technological stocks, rose by 0.3% to 20,730.49 points.
The indexes experienced a bout of weakness during the session after press reports indicating that Donald Trump wanted to try to dismiss Fed Chairman Jerome Powell. According to a senior Trump administration official, the American president asked Republican parliamentarians, during a meeting at the White House, what they thought of the dismissal of the Fed chairman and several of them expressed their support for an attempt to oust him.
But the American president then denied at a press conference at the White House that he intended to fire Jerome Powell, whose term ends in May 2026. Donald Trump has been multiplying attacks against Jerome Powell for several months, accusing him of reducing interest rates too slowly

The risks of accelerating inflation during the rest of 2025 should for now encourage the Fed to be cautious about reducing its key interest rate, which the central bank has kept in the range of 4.25% to 4.5% this year, said John Williams. “Maintaining this moderately restrictive monetary policy is entirely appropriate”, he said.
In Asia, the Nikkei index on the Tokyo Stock Exchange gained 0.2% on Thursday at the end of trading. The Shanghai Composite Index grew by 0.1%, as did the Hang Seng on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

The two-year stock rate rose 1.9 basis points to 3.92%. At around 7:40am, the 10-year US Treasury bond rate rose 1.5 basis points to 4.48%